Weddings Costs

[robert graham]

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Weddings and funerals!..just 2 great big money-making rackets!$$$

 

[korygrandy]

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Our friends paid cash in advance for a lavish destination wedding for their son 2 years ago, including all of the relatives. The bride changed her mind a month ahead, leaving them all stuck with a bunch of airline tickets. So, they took a vacation....LOL.

If I were there son, I would also be getting second thoughts about going on the defunct "honeymoon" now.

30k is waaay too expensive for 1 day of celebration, regardless of how many jobs are created. That just seems fiscally irresponsible to me. I suppose if I had a BUNCH of money to burn I would, but I doubt most couples can really afford this.

This post is just more of a shock I guess, I can remember my dad cutting the Limo driver a 1000 check for a cpl hrs of services, and another 1500 to the DJ for another cpl hrs of services. This was a reception held at my parents house so my sister and hubby could save $$ for a house. There marriage almost didnt survive and may not, its realy rocky after 10years and 2 kids.

But a very intestesting thread topic indeed. I think a lot of the single guys are probably interested in it, after all we don't exactly hang out on the Bridal Threads...at least not this guy.

 

[Bigprairie1]

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There are some interesting takes on this event here.....keep 'em coming.
One thing I just thought of is how we all chime in on how Christmas has (had?) gotten way too commercialized as a season and how so many people are working hard to wean themselves of the commercial indulgence and get back to the fundamental point of that season and day.
However....this modern wedding/cinderella event has yet to go through the same meaningful 'reset and review' filters, and continues to be a big cash dump never to be repeated, even by the couple themselves. Hmmmmm...just thinking out loud a bit here on this.
I'm not sure about weddings historically but I'll bet that at one point the community put the event on for the couple, rather than the other way around.
Hmmm, either way....interesting takes on this.
BP

 

[dave11]

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Weddings and funerals!..just 2 great big money-making rackets!$$$

Yea! When I go, PARTY!

 

[Fleetwin]

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Weddings are 100% for the bride. Queen for a day.

It is your job to sit back, show up and say yes. That's it.

 

[KDAVID1]

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Congrats. I agree with sasto. Let them do what they want if it makes them happy and you can enjoy their effort. You have other things to worry about. 10yrs ago in October I got married and bought a house all in the same week--so just enjoy. I wish you and your wife to be many years of continued happiness.

 

[dingbat]

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Weddings are 100% for the bride. Queen for a day.

It is your job to sit back, show up and say yes. That's it.

I agree. I married the youngest child, and only daughter, of a fairly well to do family. I was basically told to sit down, shut up and put this on (tails).

We had the big formal wedding at the church and the reception at the club house of a well known Washington DC golf course. We arrived at the reception via limo and left via chopper with a bottle of Dom P?rignon for the ride. The pilot flew us around DC to see the monuments at night (pre no fly zone) then flew us down to our ocean front honeymoon suite in Virgina Beach. We spent two nights in the honeymoon suite then spent the remaining 5 days at the in-laws beach house in Ocean City.

While not exactly the small wedding we wanted, we are glad the in-laws talked us into a bash. It felt good to be King and Queen for the day. Twenty-seven years later, it's still the biggest night of our lives.

 

[Kiwi Phil]

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I agree. I married the youngest child, and only daughter, of a well connected family with money. I was basically told to sit down, shut up and put this on (tails).
We had the big formal wedding at the chruch, then had the reception at the club house of a well known Washington DC golf course. We arrived at the reception via limo and left via chopper with a bottle of Dom P?rignon for the ride. The pilot flew us around DC to see the monuments at night (pre no fly zone) then flew us down to our ocean front honeymoon suite in Virgina Beach. We spent two nights in the honeymoon suite then spent the remaining 5 days at the in-laws beach house in Ocean City.

While not exactly the same wedding we wanted, we are glad the in-laws talked us into a bash. It felt good to be King and Queen for the day. Twenty-seven years later, it's still the biggest night of our lives.

Errrrrrrrrrrr, I got a really stupid Question.
After reading you excellent post (and delightfull story) how come you gave yourself the call-sign "dingbat", because in our culture - nope, it dosen't matter.

Cheers
Phillip

 

[dingbat]

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Errrrrrrrrrrr, I got a really stupid Question.
After reading you excellent post (and delightfull story) how come you gave yourself the call-sign "dingbat", because in our culture - nope, it dosen't matter.

Cheers
Phillip

It has the same connotation here as well. Why, it got your attention

 

[jkust]

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Oh yeah, if I didn't already own a house, I'd have had a hard time shelling out for a wedding being barely in my 20's. The downside is we never had a honeymoon but then again absolutely nobody we knew back then in college owned a house at our age. Two of the best decisions I ever made were to marry my bride and buy a house in college instead of rent. Both of those decisions help to set me for life. The expensive wedding on the other hand was 100% my wife's desire and I could have just as easily went to Vegas.